Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.

Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down under’. Within films and television of striking landscapes, peopled with heroes, antiheroes, survivors and jokers, there is a fixation on law, conflicts between legal orders, brutal violence and survival. Deeply compromised by the ongoing v...